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Word: existent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless a minority had a right to express and to advocate its views, the democratic process as we understand it here in America would cease to exist and those in power might remain there indefinitely and make impossible any substantial changes in our social and economic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHERE FREE SPEECH ENDS | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...disease tends to breed in families where serious, long-standing social problems exist," Dr. Robert Jackson of the University of Iowa reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Students of rheumatic fever cannot fail to learn how important wholesome family life is to the welfare of children, and how devastating immoral practices, such as selfishness, greed, drunkenness, promiscuity and divorce, are to wholesome family life. Only when an attack on these complicated detrimental forces is made, utilizing supernatural and natural resources, can one hope for the eradication of this scourge of childhood."* Citing his study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homework | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from the Matisse windows. "You understand?" he said to a TIME reporter at Nice last week, "the colors do not exist, yet they exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What I Want to Say | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...years ago, Leland Olds, like many another New Dealer, had some radical notions about capitalism. As a reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shocking Words | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...celebrate the Sacraments!' 'Go and present yourselves in a liturgy, which perhaps repeats the heavenly liturgy!' 'Go and devise a theology which may gloriously unfold like the Summa of St. Thomas!' Of course, there is nothing to forbid all this; there may exist very good cause to do it all; but nothing, nothing at all for its own sake. In it all, the one thing must prevail: 'Proclaim the Gospel to every creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Credo | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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